CV

July 2017 – National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor of Political Science and IR.

March 2016 – Associate Professor of Political Science and IR, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Catania.

Erasmus and International Affairs Coordinator, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Catania.

Research Coordinator, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Catania.

President (elected) of the European Peace Research Association (EuPRA), 2017-2019.

Education

1999 University of Messina, Faculty of Political Sciences. Degree in International Political Sciences, cum laude. Degree thesis in History of International Relations on “The Peace Process in Northern Ireland”.

2004: PhD in International Relations.

2000-2003: PhD program in International Relations, University of Catania. Dissertation on Criminal States.

Prior Teaching & Research Positions

2004-2008 – Research Fellowship in Political Science, University of Messina, Faculty of Political Sciences.

2005/2006-2008/2009 – Lecturer of International Relations, University of Messina, Faculty of Political Sciences, Undergraduate course on International and European Studies.

2004/2005-2007/2008 – Lecturer of International Relations, University of Palermo, Faculty of Education, Undergraduate course on International Communication.

2007/2008 – Lecturer of United Nations (in English), University of Catania, Faculty of Political Sciences, Master course on EU Government and International Politics.

2011-2013:Member of the International PhD program in Global Politics and European Integration (XXIV cycle), Scuola Superiore di Catania.

2013-2014 – Convenor of the International Relations Section; Annual Conferences of the Italian Political Scientist Association.

2013- till today: Member of the PhD program in Political Sciences, University of Catania.

2016 till today: Member of the Steering Committee of the ECPR Standing Group on International Relations.

2017: Member of the Book Prize Committee, IASOC Best Book on Organized Crime.

2018 – Member of the EUROMESCO Research Group on Cooperation with Religious Institutions as a European Policy Tool

Editorial Activity

2010 till today: Reviewer: European Security; Global Crime; Journal of Contemporary European Research; European Review of Organised Crime, the Hague Journal of Diplomacy, International Social Science Journal.

Member of the Editorial Board of:

IdPS, Interdisciplinary Political Studies, Special Issue on Transnational Crime, edited by the Universities of Trento and Siena;

European Review of Organised Crime, ECPR Press;

EuropeNow (edited by Council of European Studies). Responsible of International Relations issues;

March 2014: Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore. Course: The EU Strategies in Tackling the Crime-Terror Nexus in the Multilateral Context

February 2015: National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Courses: Insecurity Complexes: the relations among criminals, terrorists and insurgents; Italy between the two wars; Multicultural experiences in Europe.

March 2016: John Jay College for Criminal Justice, CUNY, New York. Lecture: Insecurity complexes: the impact of criminals, terrorists and insurgents on global politics

September 2016: Leiden University, The Hague, Netherlands. Courses: NGOs, Crisis Management and Conflict Resolution: Measuring the impact of NGOs on Intergovernmental Organizations; The European Parliament and CSDP.